UBS AG (UBSN) boosted Chief Executive Officer Sergio Ermotti’s compensation by 21 percent to 10.73 million Swiss francs ($12.3 million), the last time the decision will fall exclusively on the bank’s board as Swiss governance rules change. . .

.http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-14/ubs-raises-ermotti-s-2013-pay-21-after-return-to-profit.html

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and his European Union counterparts are under pressure to get a bank-crisis law on the books after European Central Bank President Mario Draghi spelled out the consequences of failure. . .

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-10/eu-bank-crisis-talks-resume-as-draghi-watches-attentively.html

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether currency traders at the world’s biggest banks distorted prices for options and exchange-traded funds by rigging benchmark foreign-exchange rates, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. . .

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-10/sec-said-to-probe-whether-forex-rigging-distorted-options.html

The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of recession and companies took advantage of record low interest rates, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-09/global-debt-exceeds-100-trillion-as-governments-binge-bis-says.html

Royal Bank of Scotland is poised to release millions of pounds worth of shares to its top executive team through bonus schemes put in place by the loss-making bank over the last three years. . .

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/06/rbs-bonus-announcement-imminent-loss-making